Shadow Slave

1499 Prince's Old Clothes

While Effie was giving Mordret — who silently listened to her with a strange expression on his usually composed face — the talk about the birds and the bees, Sunny secretly looked around.

'A mirror realm…'

He had never learned what Mordret's Ascended Ability was — and he did not really know now, either. But it seemed to have something to do with establishing a physical space in the realm of reflections, or at least a space capable of containing physical items and living things.

So, in a sense, Mordret carried within himself a pocket dimension, similar to Effie's Supreme Memory. It was a pure utility Ability. But there were still many questions about its reach and extent…

For example, could any reflection become an entrance to this Mirror Realm? No… he had called it a mirror realm. So could there be many of such realms? What was the scope of the space he could create? What were its limitations?

The idyllic meadow inside Effie's locket, for example, was around three kilometers across. Additionally, while she could send people and creatures inside without asking for permission, it was easy to escape — all one had to do was reach the edge of the small world and attack its painted boundaries.

With enough force, the fabric of the pocket dimension would come undone, and the locket would be damaged.

What about Mordret's mirror realm? He had already shown the ability to pull people inside against their will, even from some distance. How would one escape being trapped in a reflection?

What powers did Mordret possess within this mirror world that he did not have outside? More than that… could it be connected to two reflections at the same time, serving as a bridge between two physical places?

There were too many questions.

'No, I'm thinking about it wrong.'

The Prince of Nothing had not said that this was a manifestation of his Ascended Ability. He had said that it was an extension of it. How had his Ability been extended? Who had extended it?

there a monster roaming its expanse… one dangerous enough to make Mordret

could invade Mordret's mirror

appeared

of an answer. And that

Mordret cleared his

That… please accept my sincere congratulations... I guess? Congratulations! Ah, but we've already spent too much time here. It's time

anything, the world around them rippled. In the next moment, they found themselves somewhere else…

Sunny tensed.

expanse around them. The grey sky was covered by stormy clouds. The surface beneath their feet was shrouded in white mist. The whole space was suffused with soft light… and there, high above, a single radiant sphere

the surface of the sun,

place… resembled

head slightly,

a row in front of him. For a moment, he even mistook them for the silent shadows… but no, they weren't shadows.

world. A woman with a weathered face, wearing cheap synthetic attire. A hunched old man in a plain suit similar to those the government officials wore. A broad-shouldered warrior clad in a suit of armor in the colors of

several Nightmare Creatures among them, as

They were… Mordret's bodies.

Sunny's appalled gaze, the Prince of Nothing

wardrobe? I hope

and looked at his companions, who all stared at the hollow bodies with repulsed expressions. He shook his head and

Mordret chuckled.

if I'm some kind of monster. These

young man

This one… well, this one was surprisingly healthy. But he's had siphoned the credits meant for security measures and

Mordret shook his head.

have standards,